Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | But then I got pushed forward you know ? |
2 | She suggested in that shoddy little newspaper interview that I 'd broken up her marriage … but let's not talk of it , Gregory , please . |
3 | It must have been around two-forty-five by the time I 'd packed up my stuff . |
4 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
5 | That 's what I was saying I did n't know whether I 'd heard correctly you see . |
6 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
7 | He wanted me to stay but I 'd made up my mind . |
8 | ‘ I 'd made up my mind to go . ’ |
9 | She paused , her head bent , ‘ There 's strange , because I 'd made up my mind to tell him to go anyway . ’ |
10 | I 'd made up my mind that he would like some of my work . |
11 | I 'd made up my mind there was a chance for us . |
12 | I 'd made up my mind that I was going to tell you last night . ’ |
13 | ‘ Trouble is , that night we started all this I 'd made up my mind to forget her . |
14 | I 'd made up my mind to go it alone before I came here . |
15 | After all the ditches I 'd waded through I was n't going to be defeated now — and only a few yards ahead was the blessed sea . |
16 | I said , I 'm frightened someone 's in the 'ouse , I 'm frightened not waking everybody well , well what do you do , I says , you do n't , unless you have a go , you do n't , I mean , if I 'd turned out you know , you do n't really know . |
17 | After I 'd quietened down they left me alone . |
18 | I 'd taken out one for myself without thinking . |
19 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
20 | And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’ |
21 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
22 | I had some woodwork to finish off indoors and after I 'd glued up I had some light sanding to do . |
23 | ‘ After I 'd cooled down I knew I was being irrational . ’ |
24 | I 'd sold out my race . |
25 | Each time I 'd wondered how they carried such a heavy load : how the pine-needles even stuck together , bound as they were with a single length of rope . |
26 | ‘ If I 'd known why it mattered so much to you I 'd have tried harder to make you accept the truth , ’ she said , yielding to her own regrets for a moment . |
27 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
28 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
29 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
30 | ‘ Why else would I have set up my workshop near Killearn ? ’ |